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WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1937 -THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON II i Ji LOCALS 1 Rev. Joseph KilUan. chaplain of 8t. Mary' hospital, Brecken ridge, Minn., has been visiting his broth er, Phil KilUan, and also called on Father J. R. Buck, who was a class mate of the chaplain at Mount An gel college. Mrs. Arista Nendel, who has been a patient at a local hospital since she wa injured in an automobile accident near Hubbard May 31, Is now at home in Wcodburn. She was taken there by ambulance, Ac companied by a nurse who win re main with her for a week. Mrs. Nendel will be confined to her bed for some time yet. Bids wanted on sidewalk con (ruc tion by Salem Water Commission. Get specifications at water office. July 16, 17, 18, 21, The monthly meeting of the Sa lem Missouri society will be held at the hall at 246H North Com mercial street Friday evening. The state association will hold its an nual picnic at Eugene, Sunday, Au gust 15. All former residents of the state are Invited to attend both meeting and picnic. An exceptionally busy day was spent in SUverton Tuesday by James McOilchrlst and Ed Ransdell. who gave examinations for drivers' li censes and also renewals. For Roofing, R. L. Elfstrom, 6350. Mr. and Mrs. Ward Russell and 'children, of the Keizer district, are located in Salem for the time be ing. They have lived around Keizer for the last ten years. Russell Is looking for a farm which will fill his needs. Headed by King Bing.A. A. Guef froy, uniformed Cherrians will leave Salem from the chamber of commerce rooms at 7:30 o'clock Saturday morning, bound for Eu gene and the Oregon Trail pageant. The Cherrians are to report at the Eugene hotel at 10 o'clock and oe ready to Join the Salem high school band for the Salem section of the parade. The Cherrians will hold final drill at the armory tomorrow night at 7.30 o'clock. Washable Wallpaper. 324 N. Coml. 196 Routine business occupied the Sa lem Trades and Labor council last night with delegates to the state convention at Marshfield making reports. A verdict in favor of the defen dant was returned by a jury in the damage action of C. O. Griffin against Patrick McCafferty yester day afternoon in circuit court. The plaintiff asked $2669 In damages growing out of an automobile acci dent. Judge LewelUng sat on the case In Judge McMahan's depart ment. Arthur Girod was foreman of the Jury. Bckerlen'a Crawfish, cooked or al ive. Steak or chicken dinners. Mar lon Club. 175 An amended petition for a widow's allowance of $50 a month from the astate of W. L. Bentley has been granted In the probate matter of R. M. Bentley against Frank Bent ley and others in circuit court. Motion to set for trial and plain tiff's reply have been filed in cir cuit court, in the damage action of Arthur Andresen, ad mm Is tra tor, against A. M. Drawson. Two divorce decrees were grant ed by Judge LewelUng yesterday afternoon by default. Marion E. Helsel was granted a decree from Melvln Helsel with $40 a month for support of five children and $30 a - month alimony with property set tlement confirmed. Myrtle R. Ben nett was given a decree from George Bennett. Salem Vintage, 149 N. HI. Ph. 4014 Zelda M. Jory has filed suit for divorce from Lewis H. Jory alleg ing cruel and inhuman treatment. They were married in Salem in 1926. She asks custody of two chil dren. Walter J. Kerrigan, former San Francisco newspaper and publicity man, spent yesterday here renewing old friendships and left for his Ash land home last evening. Kerrigan reports conditions very good in Jackson and Klamath county and remarked that the reopening of the Llthla Springs hotel in Ashland was a great success under the manage ment of Walter Leverette oi Mtd ford the present owner. Re-roof now. Mathis, 474 Ferry. Mike Klimeck of Talent and well known resident of Jackson county ipent yesterday in Salem. Small T-bone steaks 20e lb. Beef boil 10c lb. Pure lard 11c lb. Midget Market. 172 Transcript of Judgment has been filed here from Polk county In the ease of C. K. Yinker and others against Ed Forgard. the face of the Judgment being shown as $61.66. Agnes Grassman has filed her report as guardian for Anna B. Peterson, showing receipts of $1372.29, disbursements of $1189.09 and balance of $254.20. Damage action of Dexter Boies against Ben Wilson and Salem Sand 4c Oravel company started before Judge Levelling in Judge McMahan's department of circuit court today with the Jury being se lected this morning. The plaintiff alleges that 'Ben Wilson' beat him about the bead and face and broke his nose in two places. The alter cation took place, he says. July 2, last year. The defendant Wilson, in an answer, avers that the plaintiff deliberately conducted himself In such a manner as to incite an alter cation, that he used coarse and ob scene language against the defen dant and that the plaintiff defend ed himself against the assault. Boies asks for $2000 in general and $8 in special damages. West Salem Florist serves Mon mouth, independence, Dallas, Phone 6439 for your floral wants. 172 Motion has been filed In the case of Anna Savage against Albert T. Savage, administrator, to strike the plaintiff's complaint on the ground that two separate causes of action are not separately stated. - Building permits have been issued t oP. M. Hilmoe, re-roof dwelling, 515 South 21st to cost $25; C. J. Adams, re-roof dwelling, 265 Wall er, to cost $100 and S. Z. Spitler, re-roof dwelling, 1375 South Liberty, to cost $100. James Melton is booked at the police station on a charge of being drunk. ' Marriage licenses have been Is sued at Vancouver, Waih., to Floyd H. Davis and Alice J. Johnson, both of Gervais route 1, and to Harold E. Eddy, Independence and Norah S. Schols, of Lebanon. Marion County Republican club, Marlon hotel 7:30 tonlte. Public in vited. 172 Suffering only from shock alter being rescued from the Willamette river Tuesday afternoon by Russell Hagy, life guard at the river beach below the dance pavilion, Winifred Mann, 12, was taken to her home at 855 Center street by the first aid car. Although unconscious when rescued, oxygen was applied and she quickly recovered. The 4th U. S. Enzineers" associa tion of the northwest will hold Its annual picnic Sunday at Carver, in the district east of Portland. Funeral services for Hugh B. Smith, 39. who met death in a col lision between his automobile and one driven by Ben Hutching of Portland early Tuesday morning on the highway Just south of the Lib erty Junction, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Clough-Barrick mortuary. The American Legion, of which he was a member for many years, will be in charge of the services. Smith was a member of the national championship drum corps of Capi tal Post No. 9. Interment will be at Belcrest Memorial park. Wanted: Car in exchane on 3 good lots, paved St. Creek property, Ph. 6439 from 5 to 8 p.m. 173 A number of persons got wet feet and one or two flower beds were damaged last night in Wilison park as the result of some one turning on the wattT hydrants during the band concert. The water flooded the west portion of the park and concert goers walked into the pools following the concert. Frank Klurk. city gardener said today that the hydrants apparently remained open all night. Three cases of communicable disease were reported in Marion county to the stale department of health during the week ending July 17. They were one each of typhoid fever, whooping cough and tubercu losis. - Harold Say of the Information bureau. Oregon state highway com mission, wiil address members of the Salem Lions club Thursday noon at the Quelle. Closing order has been filed In probate on the estate of Paul Rudyk of which Rufus C. Holman Is ad ministrator. Joseph B. Felton. as guardian for Albert and Evelyn Jensen, minors. Is given authority in probate to cancel a promissory note and sat isfy a mortgage of Jack and Ar line Hall and directed to accept a mortgage from George C. and Dei tha Weber. K. D. Snyder has been named ferryman at the Wheatland ferry to act for Marion county. Yamhill county also provides a ferryman, the two taking alternate shifts. Snyder was formerly in the coun ty's employ, but was laid off from work for a considerable length of time after he sustained a broken ankle at the Battle Creek rock crusher while working for the coun ty. Levelling of the ground sur rounding the new high school at D and 14th street is proceeding rap Idly and as a result it is expected seeding operations will get under way well in advance of the fall rains. Landscaping of the grounds, a WPA project, will be started just as soon as conditions permit. The case against J. H. Cummings, charged with issuing a check with out sufficient funds, was dismissed in justice court today upon motion of the district attorney's office. It is understood Cummings has taken care of a number of outstanding checks and has completed satisfac tory arrangements with persons who are holding others. County Judge Siegmund. at a meeting of the county court tins morning, raised the question of get ting the debris hauled away on the property of the old Dreamland rink The building which housed the rink fell "under the weight of the mow last winter and the land has been littered with tha ruin of the rink ever since. Judge Slegmund said he had referred tha matter to the district attorney and County En gineer Hubbs, who is a member of the city zoning commission, said he would call it to the attention of that committee tonight. Aside from the appearance of the debris on the lot it Is stated a fire harard Is also raised by Its being allowed to re main in Its present condition. However, question was raised as to authority to require its removal, which question may be decided by the district attorney. Vic Fox was found not guilty in Justice court on a charge of falling to stop and give his name and re gistration number following an ac cident. LUSKNAMED AS SUCCESSOR TO CAMPBELL (Continued from page 1) as governor, and today'i appoint ment was Governor Martin's first supreme court appointment. Justice Campbell died here Friday night of a heart ailment, and was buried Monday in Oregon City. More than 30 applications for the post were received, but Governor Martin accepted none of them until after Justice Campbell's funeral. Justice Campbell was elected for a six-year term In 1930 and was re elected last year. He was chief Jus tice in 1935 and 1936. Judge Lusk, born in Tfashington. D. c, in 1883. received hia bachelor of laws degree from Georgetown uni. versity in 1907. He has lived in Ore gon since 1909 and was assistant U. S. attorney in 1919 and 1922. He now is serving his second term as judge of the fourth Judicial dis trict of the circuit court. He has a wife and five daughters. The supreme court adjourned a week ago today to reconvene next September when Justice Lusk assum es his new post. JudRe Dobson was born in Indiana in 1879. completing his law educa tion at Chicago In 1608. He is mar ried. He was a member of the legal ad visory board during the World war and aided in Liberty bond work for the Y.M.C.A. and for the Red Cross. FATAL JOKER IN DRUG FOOD LAW Washington. July 21 W Repre sentative John M. Coffee of Taco ma. Wash., said today In a speech broadcast over a nationwide hookup (CBS) that "the record of congress the past four years in respect to food and drug legislation is one of which none of us can be proud." Coffee, urging support for a food and drug bill proposed by the Con sumers Union of the United States. Inc., which he has introduced, said the existing law. enacted in 1908, "has now outgrown its usefulness." "Its chief defects," he said, "are that it applies neither to advertis ing nor to cosmetics, although it does forbid false claims on labels and prohibits adulteration of food or drugs. Coffee said the law also "contains a fatal Joker." when the government starts an action ased on false thera. peutlc claim against sellers of pat1 ent medicines, he said, it must prove "not only that such claims were false but also that the person who made them knew they were false. "In other words, the more lgnor ant a drug vendor was. and the less he knew of medicine, the less likely he was to be convicted." PAROLED FORGER GIVEN THREE YEARS Rcceburg. Ore.. July Jl (Pi Thom as Charles Martin, alias Charles Moore, paroled a year ago from a check charge in Marlon county, was sentenced in circuit court here today to three years in the state peniten tiary when he pleaded guilty to issu ing a worthless check. The crime with which he was charged occurred at Canyonville, where he passed a $25 check on Mrs. M. E. Maniey, inn keeper. District Attorney J. V. Long told the court. Martin, under the name of Moore was sentenced in Marion county July 3, 1936. to two years in the peni tentiary, but was paroled, the dis trict attorney said. Information re ceived by the district attorney from the criminal Identification bureau shon s an arrest at Tillamook August 8. 1935, on a forgery charge but gives no disposition of the case, Long re ported. Deputy Sheriff Skinner of Val entine. Neb., is expected to arrive In Salem tomorrow morning from Hayward, Calif., to pick up M. H. Roberts, apprehended here on a telegraphic warrant for Valentine authorities on a charge of embezzle ment of $500. Skinner had been advised that Roberts was in Hay- ward but when he reached there It was found Roberts was in Salem and arrest was made by Deputy Sheriff Honeycutt at 340 N. Church Roberts maintains hia Innocence. He states the charge grew out of a stock deal and that no embezzle ment had been committed. Governor Martin said today he was "very sorry" to learn that fire-swept Bandon could not receive WPA as sistance because of a shortage of re lief labor. He said the state, which suspended the city's taxes, could do nothing more, but he Mid he did not doubt that the city mould rehabili tate itself. LABOR BOARD USED TO COERCE INDUSTRIALISTS Detroit, July 21 William J. Cameron of the Ford Motor Co. told members of the National Editorial association today that publicity is the "lash on the whip" being used by political agencies on industries that maintain their independence. "The national labor relations board," he said, "is the agency for this news. "The federal law." Cameron told the editors, "sets up traveling courts of inquisition. One is sitting in De troit now, as judge, prosecutor and jury on Its own charges. Any find ings by '.he court favorable to In dustry are given only scant mention by the press, but the ends of the po litical agencies already have been served. "This misuse of the press never occurs to an industry that signs up (with Lewis) and many have signed up to avoid legal lynching. "Newspapers, not achievements, made John L. Lewis," he declared. "Labor has originated nothing in the way of better conditions for workers. All of its ideas have been borrowed from progressive Indus trialists. He asserted "there never was a Ford riot; there never was a labor disturbance in the Ford shops, and Ford employes never rioted." "No firms that are owned by any one have signed with the union," Cameron said, explaining that he distinguished between stock corpor ations and firms directed by the owners. DEMAND UNION KEEP CONTRACTS Detroit, July 21 (Pj General Mo tors corporation demanded written assurance today from the United Automobile Workers of America that it would comply with the grievance procedure in their agreement before calling strikes. William 6. Knudsen, G.M. presi dent, wrote Homer Martin, U.A.W.A. president, that the corpora tion would not consider the union's pro posal to negotiate a revision of the agreement until the pledge against "wildcat" strikes had been made as an amendment to that document. Meanwhile, work resumed at Fry Products. Inc., where the boss twice has gone on strike. Walter L. Fry. president, whose employes capitulated to his demand ed exclusion of the United Auto mobile Workers of America, as such, from any signed agreement, re opened the plant. Upon their Insistence yesterday to stand by the union, Fry closed the plant.. Reconsidering. 150 em ployes late in the day accepted Frys terms regarding the U.A.W.A., which he charged was "irresponsible.' Fry gained nation-wide notice last February when he followed his employes' ait-down strike with a sit-down of his own. CLUB JUDGING T0URMGUST2 Sixteen Marion county boys have already signed up for the Willamette Valley 4-H club Judging tour August 2, 3 and 4 under extension service of the state college. The Marion county delegation will leave the courthouse at Salem August 2, at 8:15 a.m., and meet other county del egations at Canby. Other boys liv ing north of Salem will be picked up at Brooks, Gervais or Aurora. Trans portation will be in a truck belong ing to Ralph Harper. On August 2 visits will be made to the following farms: Kraxburgers, Harms Bros., Bolton's, Ridder's and camp will be had that night at Dodge park on the Sandy river. Next day visits will be made to the T. B. Wil cox farm, Estelle Pennon and Mc Elhaney dairies and camp will be had again at Dodge park. Next day Luscher and Mahy's dairies will be visited after which the party will tart home, arrival at Salem expect ed at S or 6 p.m. Those already signed for the tour are Junior Miller, Elmer Bierly, Or ville Brown, Johnny Brown and Myron Harper, all Gervais route 1: Henry O. Pfening. Ned Jensen, Her bert Booth, all Turner route 1; Rob ert Cole, Jefferson, route 1; Robert Zlelinskl, Hubert Panther, Law rence Beckner, Loren Bosten, all Salem route 2: Kenneth Ballweber, Woodburn. route 1; Donald Naf zlger, Salem, route 6. and Robert Hunt. Aurora. Palmer Torvend, a former club member of SUverton, will go along to assist on the trip. GOVERNOREARLE CENSURES LEHMAN Harrisburg. Pa., July 21 (U.R) Governor George H. Earle today asserted that Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York was guilty of "great disloyalty and a ere.it mis take in Judgment" in opposing the president's supreme court reorgan ization plan. "If Lehman's feelings were sin cere, he should have stated them when he wrote the president a let ter sometime aero giving his posi tion with regard to the court bill," Earle said, "to hold off and spring his stand at the crucial point in the fight. I think, was disloyal. "I have a feeling Governor Leh man in a liberal socially, but I am very much afraid he 1 not a lib eral economically, ( ""uJ ? Sa ' 1 - v ; " . . -V$v V lit ' -. ' fj am - WAITING ON WAR. The well-known Chinese "long knife" troops were among the first to see action in hand-to-hand fighting that opened the defense of Peiping, when native troops repelled a determined attack by Japanese forces. Here a "knife squad" awaits the word to go over the top. REBELS DRIVE ON 3 SIDES OF MADRID LINES (Continued from page 1 subject the government salient lo frontal attacks from the south to ward Brunete. flanking maneuvers were directed from east and west. Government reports said Miaja's men had taken up positions from which they could better defend Vil lanueva De La Canada, (An insurgent communique said the Insurgents pushed Miaja's lines to the Guadarrama river about four miles east of Brunete and asserted the government had lost more than 20.000 in the recent Madrid fighting.) South of Madrid and east of Navalcarnero where other govern ment forces are fighting to Join Miaja's western front salient, the government reported its lines were held in the face of heavy counter attack. Reports from the Guadalajara front, northeast of the capital, told of a continued concentration at tack to break them up. BRUNEMAN HAS CHANCE TO LIVE Los Angeles. July 21 (U.R) George (Les) Bruneman. veteran of the gambling wars, fought for his life against a gunman's bullet today with a gambler's odds to win. Doctors gave him a "fifty-fifty" chance to survive the bullet fired through his lung by one of two ap parently hired a.ssasslns who way laid Bruneman as he strolled on the Rpdondo beach strand with a pretty blonde Monday night . Brune man, true to the code he lived by, refused to help police track his assailants. Through clenched teeth he muttered: "I don't know who did it. I can't give any clues. I don't know noth ing." Four hard-fared, shifty-eyed stal warts stood guard outside his hos pital door, apparently fearing a re turn visit from the gunmen. Pretty Patricia Eatnne, 21-year-old model and club hostess, who was with Bruneman when he was shot, lunched with two of the gamb ler's friends. "They told me to keep my mouth shut," she said, "or I might grt into trouble if I didn't. They said the 'other side" might try to kill me because I was with Les," Police feared the shooting means a new gambling war. WARSHIP SAILORS RESCUE WOMAN Portland, Ore., July 21 flJ.R) The attempted suicide of Mrs. Ma rie Beck, 28, was frustrated early today by Robert E. Bailey and Par mer N. Lewis, sailors aboard the cruiser, U. S. S Richmond, who pull ed the unconscious woman from the Willamette river after she had leapt from a bridge. Bailey, harbor patrolmen said, heard the splash as the woman's body hit the water. Searchlights from the vessel were spotted on her j floating figure, and the sailor peel- j ed off his middy, dived in and pull- ( ed her aboard a whaleboat which ; Lewis had launched In the mean-! time. I At the hospital examination dis- j closed Mrs. Beck to be suffering I from a possible broken back, inter- j nal injuries, hemorrhages and shock. The problem of highway safety must be solved by the automobile driver and not blamed upon other factors, John Kcrrick. of the secre tary of state's department, told the Rotary club today noon in speaking on "highway safety." Most acci dent reports li.st "causes" when they should read "excuses," he said. Speed is not a major factor if pro perly utilized, the speaker said. In referring to highways, he also said these were not to blame, for a poor' driver on a good highway is stillj a poor driver and probably more1 ao becair of conditions. j Government employes of Hon duras are receiving payment of sal aries In arrears. - - Free Flowers For Shut-Ins With such a profusion of summer flowers in his garden at 336 North High street that he will have to cut and throw them away, J. Henderson wants to share the blooms with lets f ortuna te persons, particularly patients in hos pitals who ha ve no f lo wers of their own and who cannot afford to buy them. "Please tell the people who want flowers for hospital pa tients but who cannot afiord to buy them that if they will call at my place I'll cut the flowers and give them to them." Henderson told the Capital Journal today. PORTLAND TO ASSIST BANDON Portland. Ore.. July 21 (U.P Full est cooperation of the city of Port land in aiding the firt-ravaEPd town of Bandon to obtain relief funds contingent to gaining a loan from the reconstruction finance corporation was promised in a statement by Mayor Joseph K". Car son disclosed today by E. F. Slade, head of the R.F.C. in Oregon. Bandon has been promised a $200,000 R. F. C. loan, providing the community secures a supplementary grant of $117,000 from the works progress administration or from some other source. Tuesday word was rrrcivrd Ban don might not be able to obtain the necessary relief money, due to em ployment of all available bona fide relief labor on other projects. Mayor Carson, howevrr. has of fered to try putting relief workers from the Portland area at the service of the coastal town, Slade said. The Portland mayor found precedent for the action in the case of the Wolf creek highway, for which Portland was made an em ployment center, the R. F. C. di rector said. SPOKANE PLANE Portland. July 21 (fP United Air Lines plane, completing the first round trip of a new service between Portland and Spokane, left at 7:45 a. m. today carrying David L. Simpson of the Portland chamber of commerce and Queen Catherine Collins of the Pendleton roundup. The plane made its first south bound trip last night, bringing Commissioner A. B. Colburn of Spo kane, who presented a wreath to Mayor Joseph K Carson. Jr., of Portland, from the Spokane city council. Ako In the party wrre Mavor C L. Lieuallen of Pendleton. L. Drake. Pendleton editor, and H. T. An thony and H. Clevinger of Spokane. The new service includes stops at Pendleton and Walla Walla. REPORT ON LOSS OF HINOENBURG Washington, July 21 fPj -The bu reau of air commerce said today that fire, caused by an electrostatic spark which ignited a mixture of free hydrogen and air, "probably caused the destruction of the diri gible Hindenburg at Lakehurst last May 6. Thirty-six persons were kill ed In the disaster. "The cause of the accident was the ignition of a mixture of free hydrogen and air," the bureau's re port said. "Based upon the evidence, a leak at, or In the vicinity of cells four and five cauwd a combustible mixture of hydrogen and air to form in the upper htein part of the .ship in considerable quantity, the first appearance of an open flame was on top of the ship and a rela tively short distance forward of the upper vertical fin. The throry that a brush discharge ignited such mix ture appears most probable." The report declared that, suspi cions of sabotage were unsupported by any videnre Caroline Patterson ft; suardian for Clayton Sherman Patterson, minor, has filed her annual account showing rrrnpts of $402 70; dis bursements of $326.20 and balance a' 176.30, ! 1 Ba BARKLEY WINS CLOSE CONTEST (Continued from page 1) congratulated the victor and that "we are all going to work for har mony in the democratic party." Barkley gave out a brief state ment saying: "My policy is to be representative of the administration as well as the senate in working out to the best of my ability the problems that face the party, the administration and the country." The last ballot counted decided the contest, senators said. Up to the last vote, the two candidates were tied at 37 to 37. When the deciding ballot was announced, there was a burst of applause. President Roosevelt publicly kept hia hands off the contest. Both candidates participated in a le glslative conference with him last night. Both senators have supported the Roosevelt administration on nearly every issue, including court re organization. SEElSPROBEOF INDIAN BOREAU Washington. July 21 ttJ.W Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D., Mont.) today proposed an investigation of the of fice of Indian affairs in the interior department. Wheeler, author of the Indian re organization act he now wishes to repeal, commented on the animosity between Senator Dennis Chavez (D... N.M.), and Indian Commissioner John Collier with one brief state ment: "I think thtTe should be an In vestigation." The Chavez - Collier cross-fire flared after the high council of the Navajo tribe, claiming to represent 50,000 Indians, wired President Roosevelt asking the removal of Chavez from the senate Indian af fairs committee. Collier then charged the Navajos are "victlma of Senator Chavez and a dozen whit stockmen who arc so unfaithful to their citizenship that they do not pay taxes." In reply, Chavez declared that Collier "is seeing red" because the appropriation for the bureau of In dian affairs was reduced and that the tribal council did not represent the purported 50,000 Indians. Cha vez also said he did not "own or lease one foot of land in the Nava jo area." Wheeler, in a statement before the senate Indian affairs commit ter recently, charged Collier with "playing in with the lumber com panies'" and "approving fraudulent contracts." ESCAPED PRISONER SHOT IN CAPTURE Portland. July 21 (Pi Shot twice in the back. John Brown. 24, negro, was captured today by Deputy Sher iff Jack Wills near S.E. 17th ave nue and Powell Blvd., as police hunted for him following his es cape Tuesday from the Kelly Butie rock pile. His condition was seri ous. Wills said he sighted Brown and arrested him but the man tried to flee. The officer ordered him to halt and Brown stopped. Wills took him to an automobile and as they wercabout to enter the officer said Brown )nt him on the chin and ran. Wills fired three times. Brown staggered but continued to run and disappeared, only to fall Into the arms of a special patrolman as officers combed the area. He was serving a year for lar ceny. LOANS BUNG MADE Independence F. E. Siemens of Dallas, manager of the Polk County Federal Loan association, was in Independence on Tuesday afternoon on business. The association Is plac ing a number of good loans in this vicinity. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their sympathy and kind ner to us in the death of our mother. Katie M. Allison. The Alli son family. 172 COUNTY ASKED T0PAYS5808 IN FIRE TAXES At a prolonged conference this morning between J. W. Ferguson, state forester, District Attorney Page and members of the county court, a bill for $5608.08 filed by tha state board of forestry against tha county for delinquent fire patrol assessments went unpaid and ap parently with nothing to be 'done about it until the county budget meeting in NovembtT. The bill was submitted some time ago. It cover ing tax delinquencies running back to and including 1926 on lands tak en over by the county under fore closure. These are largely margin al lands along timber belts which are subject to fire patrol tax, al though timbered tracts are includ ed. The list covered 87 such tra eta on which fire patrol tax has not been paid for about 11 years. A letter from the state forester states that it is well established by law that this fire patrol tax u ft lien which is not invalidated by tax foreclosure and that the county owes it. This was not disputed by District Attorney Page nor county court members. The situation seems to be that the county hasnt the money to pay the bill and there la no provision in the budget to pay it. A letter submitted also from the Association of Oregon Counties set up a compromise proposal for all of the counties affected, there being many carrying such orlliiquencles over a long period. The compro mise proposed was thar the delin quencies be paid from the sales of land and where sales are less tha delinquencies that both sides bear a pro rata loss. That each county make up a list of its delinquencies and offer the board of forestry 10 per cent of the assessments up to and Including 1935 in full satisfac tion. That contracts be entered into on a basis of 2'i per cent acre cost to the county for 1936 and 1937 patrol work. The cost to private individuals Ls 4.8 cents per acre. A third compromise was sug gested today that for 1937 and 1938 a cost of 4 cents an acre be assessed against county lands. However, it developed ihat under the law no one Is authorized to make a compromise. On the other hand the district attorney pointed out, there is no way under the law the forestry board can enforce the claim against the county so the sit uation seemed at a deadlock untj the budget committee meets to ef fect some settlement. BOARD TO MEET COOS BAY NEXT Portland, July 21 (PI Portland members of the state board of higher education have been noti fied that the next meeting of th board will be held in Marshfield Tuesday, July 27. This will be the first meeting of the board to be held there and waa arranged in order that the mem bers might inspect the recently es tablished institute of marine bio logy organized at a special lite on Coos head. Business of the meeting will con sist partly of handling some post poned budget matters from the last meeting, giving further considera tion to the retirement annuity plan for faculty members and other rou tine business. It ls possible also that informal discussions at least "i1l be held regarding the search for a successor to President C. V. Boyer. who submitted his resigna tion as president of the University of Oregon at the June meeting. WAGNER REPLIES TO GOVERNOR LEHMAN Washington. July 21 'U.P Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y., today wrote Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York that his court plan vote would be "consistent both with safe guarding American institutions and with advancing those social objec tives which epitomize my own life' work." In an open letter replying to Leh man's letter urging him to oppose the pending Judicial reorganization bill, Wagner pointed out that there is uncertainty as to what court proposal will ultimately be submitted to the senate. Wagner did not commit himself on any specific court plan In his reply to Lehman. Mt. Angel Misa Suzanne Hauth, clerk in the Eberle Cash store, is back at work after spending a week's vacation visiting relatives and friends in Portland and Van couver. The state department of agricul ture today called a hearing at Mil ton July 29 when representatives of the prune industry will discuss whe ther they want to retain the stand ard 30-pound prune container used last year. Marriage licenses have been Is sued to Ernest Savaac. 21, salesman, and Evelyn Beckner. beauty oper ator. 20, both route 2, Salem; John Warner. 27, salesman, and Dorothy Buskuhl, 27, secretary, both New born. Green Stamps every day. Doublt every Saturday CARSON PHARMACY nial MM Mil Court St., KllftB
